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A review by koberreads
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
THIS SHOULD BE YOUR FIRST BOOK TO READ IF YOU PLAN TO DIVE INTO HARUKI MURAKAMI WORKS
This book is more fascinationg mysterious and complex than I have ever thought. As profound as it is complex. This is not my first book of Haruki Murakami but I do think it should have been
This book is more fascinationg mysterious and complex than I have ever thought. As profound as it is complex. This is not my first book of Haruki Murakami but I do think it should have been
This is his most scientific, mathematical, and consciousness and mind focus work of fiction. Did he study all of this before writing? Or he had all this knowledge before hand?
I do agree with this person who wrote a persuasive article below about the book: This should be your first book of Haruki Murakami if you plan to dive into his writings for the very first time because it has all the elements that you might expect in a Haruki Murakami book. (Great poetic prose, writings on music, food, normal settings of world mixed with the odd or fantasy elements but still within a form of magic realism and of course, the if you can bear it, awkward sex and misogyny.
This is also his book most focused on the philosopy or theory of how the conscious and unconscious mind work.
A sci-fi fantasy book regarding the mind through parallel alternating chapters
It is unexpectedly gives off the feeling of how human each character is even though the characters are utterly the oddest bunch you could ever meet. Maybe because we all struggle in understanding our minds. Especially the unconscious part of it when is the main focus of the book
I didnt expect the 1985 is the times where authors are so focus on the mind, consciouness, and the unconscious part of the mind, I guess books like this highlight the beginning of the world to focus on mental health or things regarding the mind.
https://bookoblivion.com/2018/04/23/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world/
I do agree with this person who wrote a persuasive article below about the book: This should be your first book of Haruki Murakami if you plan to dive into his writings for the very first time because it has all the elements that you might expect in a Haruki Murakami book. (Great poetic prose, writings on music, food, normal settings of world mixed with the odd or fantasy elements but still within a form of magic realism and of course, the if you can bear it, awkward sex and misogyny.
This is also his book most focused on the philosopy or theory of how the conscious and unconscious mind work.
A sci-fi fantasy book regarding the mind through parallel alternating chapters
It is unexpectedly gives off the feeling of how human each character is even though the characters are utterly the oddest bunch you could ever meet. Maybe because we all struggle in understanding our minds. Especially the unconscious part of it when is the main focus of the book
I didnt expect the 1985 is the times where authors are so focus on the mind, consciouness, and the unconscious part of the mind, I guess books like this highlight the beginning of the world to focus on mental health or things regarding the mind.
https://bookoblivion.com/2018/04/23/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world/
SPOILER ALERT BELOW
Chap 25: Meal, Elephant Factory, Trap
This is the most intense deep serious mediation of the nature of consciousness and uses of the mind
.. in the middle part where he laughed at Freuds and Carl Jung theories:
The black box (Unconscious part of the mind) can be either left alone or used as it is a black box and the scientist in this novel truly aims to make use of it. Although not all of us fully comprehend the unconscious mind but we can make use of it. (I wonder how could one write this all in Japanese aha.
One of the most scientific, deep serious though regarding the nature of consciouses and uses of the mind that I read from Murakami yet. I never thought Murakami read freud and Carl Jung so much also had the audacity to insult them as well which I love (Freud and Jung he said only made people talk about nature of the consciousness with jargons and gave it a scholastic color but never really describe what it really is.)
He did read Carl Kung explainaton regarding the shadow.. because he incorporated it in the End of the world story Chapter 30
Hole
a good one about doing things for the sake of it
whenever you lose your mind or let go of your thoughts.. there is only a deep peace behind the thoughts
Your true peaceful being is finally revealed after being concealed by thoughts for so long
Chapter 32
The explanation of the town.
Goddamn, I never really expected this though. It is so deep. Murakami has the best explanation on how the unconscious mind works. Goddamn
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Sexual content